Roughly 60 hours remain as “acting manager”, then no more as I revulsively return
the manger spot to Breckenbrew -who's vacation buzz will wear off inside of an hour.
He's back on Wednesday, not sure if he's gotten back early and will catch up prior or just come in unaware.

Sadistically Yours, BeerDiablo
I prefer he be unaware so I can enjoy the look ( Read more... )

No sleep last night [except two 30-min catnaps, some today] due to issues shattering the maintenance window.
In Dixie, one processor lost a channel domain and Dtown took a large production hit around 0430.

Working with the Handicapped
Despite going through the weekend plans and actions with Samurai and Ksam -twice,
the two combined proved to be not ( Read more... )

Despite the HellDay, no calls last night. Definitely one of the worst week's of my “career” in years.
There's definitely going to be a different approach used regarding my projects handed to the staff
-mainly reminding my manager to do his job and supervise the staff. Then there's weekend change
coordination/notification by staff and dealing with ( Read more... )

Heaven and Hell, shot in Shawscope. Love story, Kung-fu, Horror poured through a Late 1960's
Asian acid [LSD] filter. Odd take on Hell -most men were punished for gambling, women for gossiping.
Not enough fornicating for my tastes, though drinkers were punished in an oddly rewarding manner...


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Tonight, I gave into the 666th reason I'm going to Hell.
Yes, I'm white trash -this should come as no surprise to those who've met/know me.
See you in Hell, Mother/Father/Whatever -fuckers!!!

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Broken record playing black cloud sounds over and over.
No one changes the record, it keeps going.
Everyone's frozen in their seats.

In Saturday at 1700, out Sunday at 0630. Very little went right. Very much went wrong - repairs not taking,
systems reset during a DASD code load [major sin], feet dragging, etc. Old machines betray -unless they're ( Read more... )

Any of you planning to go to hell would do well to pack a sunblock
with a rating of 666 in order to protect your skin. I hear the sun is brutal there.

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Roughly forty-eight hours to go and I re-visit my old friend, beer ( Read more... )

“Big Iron Kicked in the Balls” is how the InfiddlevestCorp newsletter should read next week but these types of things don’t get publicized. This was the big weekend for switching over to a different type of data replication on Touch-Your-Crotchie DASD.

Walking into work for the weekend changes, it appeared things were doomed. Swinging the Touch- ( Read more... )

We had a CEC [mainframe processor] go "bye-bye" today. Rejoicing occurred on the kinky level as this isn't supposed to happen on a concurrent repair and there will be "autopsical" fun, starting Monday. This occurred at the site we're building so there's no loss.

Imagine a battle scene with someone sitting bored, in the middle of the field. Such is ( Read more... )